Biblioscape is designed to be installed by any user. Whether or not you have an administrator account on your computer (normally, Windows programs can only be installed if the user has administrator rights), you can install Biblioscape. As a result, there is no shortcut created automatically and Biblioscape is not added to the Windows programs list, although it is very easy to do that manually after installation.
Please read the license agreement in the Biblioscape installation folder. If you have a previous version of Biblioscape on your computer, please install the new version to a different folder. There is no need to uninstall the previous version. The installation of Biblioscape itself takes about another 30 megabytes.
Any Windows account can install Biblioscape. Your account can be an administrator, a standard user, or a restricted user. The installation folder can be in any place. For example: "c:\program files\Biblioscape 7\", "c:\Bibliosacpe 7\", "c"\my downloads\", or "My Documents".
Windows XP does not allow users with a limited account to write to most folders. If you have an administrator account, you can install Biblioscape in any folder you want. But if you want others with limited accounts to run it, you have to put the installation folder in a place where every user has write privileges, for example: "C:\Shared Documents\Biblioscape 7\". If you only have a limited account, you can install Biblioscape under the "Shared Documents" folder if you want others to run it. Or you can put the installation folder under "My Documents".
Windows Vista is more restrictive than Windows XP for security reasons. Even if you have an administrator account, you cannot install Biblioscape under the "C:\Program Files\Biblioscape 7\" folder because Vista won't let Biblioscape write files in sub-folders of "C:\Program Files\Biblioscape 7\". You must put the installation folder in a place over which you have full control, for example, "C:\Biblioscape 7\" or "C:\manual\biblioscape7\". If you want others to be able to run it, you have to put the installation folder in the Public folder. If you don't have administrator privileges, users with standard accounts can still install Biblioscape by putting the installation folder in the folder with your login name, or the public folder.
Biblioscape runs only under Windows 95, 98, Millennium, NT 4, 2000, XP, and Vista. It also runs under 64 bit Vista and XP. Users have run it under WINE on Linux with success. It does not run under Windows 3.1, or other operating systems (Macintosh, UNIX). But, once published on the web using BiblioWeb, users can access a Biblioscape database with any computer (PC, Macintosh, and UNIX workstations…) through a web browser. Web access includes searching the Biblioscape database, retrieving references in any desired format, modifying existing records, and even adding new records and formatting documents. BiblioWeb requires Biblioscape Professional or Librarian editions. But all features of Biblioscape are available for the first 100 runs in the trial edition.
Since Biblioscape is not installed by an installer, there is no shortcut created. You can use Windows Explorer to run Biblioscape by double clicking the file "Biblioscape.exe" under the Biblioscape installation folder. To create a shortcut, drag "Biblioscape.exe" to your desktop using the right mouse button. Release the right mouse button and select "Create Shortcut". Once you've done this, you can run Biblioscape by double clicking the desktop shortcut icon.
Windows XP: It is also possible to add Biblioscape to the Windows Start menu manually, as would normally be done by an installer. To do this, simply use the Windows Explorer to create shortcuts to Biblioscape, BiblioSidekick, Rebuild and any other applications you want in the start menu. Then paste these shortcuts into the "Start Menu" folder under your computer or user name. The applications will now appear in the Windows start menu.
If your computer does not have an Internet connection, you will need to download the installation file to a USB drive using a computer with Internet access. Then you can copy it from the USB drive to your computer to install it.
Several WordPerfect macros are installed in the "...\Biblioscape 7\Tools\" folder. To run these macros, please go to the menu command "Tools | Macros | Play..." in WordPerfect. Go the the "Tools" sub-folder under Biblioscape installation and run the macros. The marcos under Biblioscape Tools folder require saving your WordPerfect document as RTF file. RTF is a Microsoft standard. It is not very well implemented in WordPerfect. If you have complicated formatting in your WordPerfect document, going through RTF may lose some formatting. With Biblioscape, tt is also possible to format your WordPerfect document natively without going through RTF. Please read the section Integration with Corel WordPerfect for more information.
If you have Microsoft Word 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2003, or 2007 on you computer, you can install the Biblioscape Add-in template file into Word. Biblioscape-related menus will be added to the Word menu system and you can format a paper without leaving Word. To install the Add-in, first locate the “Startup” folder where Word is installed. Then copy the file “bib_word.dot” from the Biblioscape “Tools” folder into the Word “Startup” folder. The next time you start Word, the template will install itself and add Biblioscape-related menus into Word.